official ATi 8.1 driver out!

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Here are perf results. Sorry, I skipped 7.12 because of the overdrive issue with modded BIOSes that ZenEffect solved, so this is a 7.11 to 8.1 comparo. System as in sig, tests at 1600x1200x32 w/ 4xAA and 16xAniso. Tests are on x64 install of Vista.

Long post, bear with me.. (too lazy to make graphs tonight)

First, 7.11:
Benchmark Log File created on 1/12/2008 at 11:05:00 AM

Number of cores 2
Specification Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz
Core Stepping B2
Core Speed 3520.3 MHz (8.0 x 440.0 MHz)
Stock frequency 2400 MHz
L2 cache 4096 KBytes, 16-way set associative, 64-byte line size

Northbridge Intel P35/G33/G31 rev. A2

Memory Size 4096 MBytes
Memory Frequency 550.0 MHz (4:5)
CAS# 5.0
RAS# to CAS# 5
RAS# Precharge 5
Cycle Time (tRAS) 15

DMI BIOS
date 12/10/2007
Motherboard Info
vendor ASUSTeK Computer INC.
model P5K Deluxe
Windows Version Microsoft Windows Vista (6.0) Business Edition (Build 6000)
DirectX Version 10.0

Video:ATIx2900xt 512MB 1.3v ModBios @ 918/1836 Catalyst 7.11
Audio:Sound Blaster X-fi Fatal1ty

Tests performed at 1600x1200x32, 4x FSAA & 16x Anistropic (Quality setting)
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Results for Quake2:
Result 1:486.4
Result 2:489.3
Result 3:489.4
Result 4:488.9
AVERAGE FPS: 489.1
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Results for Quake3:
Result 1:338.6
Result 2:344.4
Result 3:345.0
Result 4:336.2
AVERAGE FPS: 341.5
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Results for UT2004FlyBy:
Result 1:267.2
Result 2:267.0
Result 3:267.3
Result 4:267.4
AVERAGE FPS: 267.25
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Results for UT2004Botmatch:
Result 1:74.58
Result 2:75.03
Result 3:76.24
AVERAGE FPS: 75.03
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Results for Comanche4:
Result 1:110.1
Result 2:111.4
Result 3:111.3
AVERAGE FPS: 111.3
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Results for FarCry:
Result 1:97.04
Result 2:97.46
Result 3:97.47
AVERAGE FPS: 97.46
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Results for HalfLife2:
Result 1:136.7
Result 2:136.8
Result 3:137.0
AVERAGE FPS: 136.8
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Results for SeriousSam2:
Result 1:92.5
Result 2:92.4
Result 3:92.4
AVERAGE FPS: 92.4
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Results for Doom3:
Result 1:134.7
Result 2:134.9
Result 3:134.7
AVERAGE FPS: 134.7
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Results for HalfLife2_Lost_Coast:
Result 1: 78.1
Result 2: 78.1
Result 3: 78.2
AVERAGE FPS: 78.1
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Results for Quake4:
Result 1:95.22
Result 2:95.06
AVERAGE FPS: 95.14
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Results for SplinterCell_Chaos_Theory: (Note that AA settings do not apply to Splinter Cell + HDR)
Result 1:119.6
Result 2:119.6
Result 3:119.6
AVERAGE FPS: 119.6
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Results for Supreme_Commander:
Result 1:35.766
AVERAGE FPS: 35.77
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Results for Company_of_Heroes_DX9:
Result 1:88.82
Result 2:92.27
AVERAGE FPS: 90.54
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Results for Company_of_Heroes_DX10:
Result 1:31.32
Result 2:31.01
AVERAGE FPS: 31.16
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Benchmarks finished at 12:07:03 PM

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Now 8.1

Benchmark Log File created on 1/19/2008 at 3:26:06 AM

Number of cores 2
Specification Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz
Core Stepping B2
Core Speed 3520.0 MHz (8.0 x 440.0 MHz)
Stock frequency 2400 MHz
L2 cache 4096 KBytes, 16-way set associative, 64-byte line size

Northbridge Intel P35/G33/G31 rev. A2

Memory Size 4096 MBytes
Memory Frequency 550.0 MHz (4:5)
CAS# 5.0
RAS# to CAS# 5
RAS# Precharge 5
Cycle Time (tRAS) 15

DMI BIOS
date 12/10/2007
Motherboard Info
vendor ASUSTeK Computer INC.
model P5K Deluxe
Windows Version Microsoft Windows Vista (6.0) Business Edition (Build 6000)
DirectX Version 10.0

Video:ATIx2900xt 512MB 1.3v ModBios @ 918/1836 Catalyst 8.1
Audio:Sound Blaster X-fi Fatal1ty

Tests performed at 1600x1200x32, 4x FSAA & 16x Anistropic (Quality setting)
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Results for Quake2:
Result 1:492.6
Result 2:492.2
Result 3:491.7
Result 4:494.2
AVERAGE FPS: 492.4
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Results for Quake3:
Result 1:346.1
Result 2:346.4
Result 3:344.6
Result 4:345.8
AVERAGE FPS: 345.95
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Results for UT2004FlyBy:
Result 1:272.3
Result 2:272.2
Result 3:272.1
Result 4:272.4
AVERAGE FPS: 272.25
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Results for UT2004Botmatch:
Result 1:76.28
Result 2:76.05
Result 3:75.33
AVERAGE FPS: 76.05
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Results for Comanche4:
Result 1:109.4
Result 2:111.8
Result 3:111.8
AVERAGE FPS: 111.8
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Results for FarCry:
Result 1:97.64
Result 2:97.61
Result 3:97.87
AVERAGE FPS: 97.64
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Results for HalfLife2:
Result 1:136.5
Result 2:136.6
Result 3:136.6
AVERAGE FPS: 136.6
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Results for SeriousSam2:
Result 1:94.1
Result 2:93.9
Result 3:93.9
AVERAGE FPS: 93.9
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Results for Doom3:
Result 1:136.1
Result 2:137.1
Result 3:132.9
AVERAGE FPS: 136.1
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Results for HalfLife2_Lost_Coast:
Result 1: 79.0
Result 2: 79.1
Result 3: 79.0
AVERAGE FPS: 79
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Results for Quake4:
Result 1:95.76
Result 2:96.58
AVERAGE FPS: 96.17
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Results for SplinterCell_Chaos_Theory: (Note that AA settings do not apply to Splinter Cell + HDR)
Result 1:119.3
Result 2:119.4
Result 3:119.3
AVERAGE FPS: 119.3
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Results for Supreme_Commander:
Result 1:34.413
AVERAGE FPS: 34.41
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Results for Company_of_Heroes_DX9:
Result 1:93.35
Result 2:91.56
AVERAGE FPS: 92.46
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Results for Company_of_Heroes_DX10:
Result 1:32.61
Result 2:31.84
AVERAGE FPS: 32.22
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Benchmarks finished at 4:27:54 AM

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Small increase. Yay. Best increase in the last 5 driver releases, but that still doesn't say much.....